Sloth rescued from a busy highway will fill your weary heart with love

An adorable sloth found itself in a terrifying situation when the fuzzy creature tried to cross a highway in Quevedo, Ecuador, but ended up stranded and clinging to the guardrail.

Transit police in Ecuador rescued the sloth, which they appropriately described as "beautiful" on their Facebook page. The poor animal was clearly freaked out, so hopefully it learned the hard way to stay away from highways and focus instead on a promising modeling career. 

Stop what you’re doing and look at this little fella.

Comisión de Tránsito del Ecuador

The little hunk of adorable is a sloth, in case you couldn’t tell. It was found in the Ecuadorian town of Los Rios trying to cross a road.

Comisión de Tránsito del Ecuador

Silly sloth, you can’t cross the road by yourself!

The sloth was “struggling to cross” the road when it was noticed by officers from Ecuador’s transit commission, a spokesperson told BuzzFeed News.

Comisión de Tránsito del Ecuador

“Yes, can I help you?”

The animal was scooped up by the workers and taken to a veterinarian.

Comisión de Tránsito del Ecuador

The vet found the sloth to be in good health, and in “optimal condition” to be returned home.

“The cute fellow was OK and taken back to its habitat,” the spokesperson said.

The Transit Commission posted photos of the sloth to Facebook, where thousands of people fell in love with the adorable wanderer.

Comisión de Tránsito del Ecuador

The photos have been shared more than 11,000 times.

“Congratulations gentlemen of the CTE, thank you very much for helping the innocent,” one woman wrote.

Officers wrote on Facebook that workers were thankful to all of the people who showed support for the sloth and its rescuers.

Comisión de Tránsito del Ecuador

“We will continue to support this kind of case along with the collaboration of citizenship,” the commission wrote. “Greetings to all.”